May Darwich

Research output

Research output per year 2015 2019 2020 2021 2022 2024 2025

• 18 Article
• 12 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 2 Book/Film/Article review
• 2 Other contribution
• 3 More
  • 1 Book
  • 1 Other chapter contribution
  • 1 Review article

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Asphalt, Water, and Power: The Politics of Infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa

  Darwich, M., Menoret, P., Azab-Osman, A., Jasim, A., Djerbi, D., Habib, P., Abboud, S., Rabaia, I. & Habash, L., 31 Jan 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Middle East Law and Governance.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  35 Downloads (Pure)

• Port Infrastructures and the Making of Historical Time in the Horn of Africa: Narratives of Urban Modernity in Djibouti and Somaliland

  Darwich, M. & Bakonyi, J., Apr 2025, In: Cities. 159, 10 p., 105781.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Historical Period 100%
  • Somaliland 100%
  • Horn of Africa 100%
  • Djibouti 100%
  • Port Infrastructure 100%
  13 Downloads (Pure)
• 2024

  Alexander Wendt Meets the Middle East: The Construction of Difference within Collective Identities

  Darwich, M., 15 Oct 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Siyasat Arabiya.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  87 Downloads (Pure)

• Capitalism and Infrastructural Ordering: (Re)Crafting of Statehood and Territorial Power

  Bakonyi, J. & Darwich, M., 20 Jun 2024, (Accepted/In press) Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders. Bieling, H.-J. & Futterer, A. (eds.). Springer

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Foreign Policy and the Decline of Regional Power

  Darwich, M., 1 Dec 2024, (Accepted/In press) Egypt's New Authoritarian Republic. Springborg, R. & Mady, A.-F. (eds.). Lynne Rienner Publishers

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Foreign policy of armed non-state actors

  Darwich, M., 1 Feb 2024, Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis. Kaarbo, J. & Thies, C. (eds.). Oxford University Press, (Oxford Handbooks).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Forum: Real Struggles, High Stakes of Doing International Studies in the Global South

  Chenoweth, E., Parashar, S., Darwich, M., Das, D., Bernoussi, Z. E. & Sebhatu, R., 3 Jul 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: International Studies Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  4 Downloads (Pure)

• Forward to the Past? Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War

  Valbjørn, M., Bank, A. & Darwich, M., 25 Jul 2024, In: Middle East Policy. 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Gaza War 100%
  • Regional 100%
  • repercussions 100%
  • Middle East 66%
  • Arab 66%
  30 Downloads (Pure)

• Infrastructures and International Relations: A Critical Reflection on Materials and Mobilities

  Bakonyi, J. & Darwich, M., Dec 2024, In: International Studies Review. 26, 4, 26 p., viae046.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • International Relations 100%
  • International Relation 100%
  • International Relations Discipline 66%
  • Knowledge Practices 33%
  • Polity 33%
  81 Downloads (Pure)

• Port infrastructure and state-building in the Horn of Africa

  Bakonyi, J. & Darwich, M., 15 Nov 2024, Borders of Conflict: Navigating Policy in a Transnational Ecosystem. Mansour, R. (ed.). Global Policy

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2023

  Alliances in the Post-2011 Middle East

  Darwich, M., 20 Jun 2023, The 9th edition of the Interuniversity Program Aula Mediterrània. IEMed, Vol. 137. 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution

  Open Access

• Threats and alliances in the post-2011 Middle East

  Darwich, M., 13 Apr 2023, IEMed.

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

• تدريس العلاقات الدولية في العالم العربي: الإشكاليات المعرفية والنظرية

  Translated title of the contribution: Teaching international relations in the Arab world: knowledge production and theoretical challengesSalloukh, B. F. & Darwich, M., 31 Mar 2023, In: Siyasat Arabiya. p. 78-93

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • International Relations 100%
  • Arab World 100%
  • Knowledge Production 100%
  • World Knowledge 100%
  • International Relation 100%
• 2022

  Foreword

  Darwich, M., Jun 2022, New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. Topak, O., Mekouar, M. & Cavatorta, F. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• International relations and regional (in)security

  Darwich, M., Gause III, F. G., Hazbun, W., Ryan, C. & Valbjørn, M., 6 Jul 2022, The political science of the Middle East: theory and research since the Arab Uprisings. Lynch, M., Schwedler, J. & Yom, S. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 86-107 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The view from Riyadh: A neoclassical realist perspective of Saudi foreign policy toward Iran in the post-2011 Middle East

  Darwich, M., 30 Nov 2022, Saudi Arabia and Iran: : The struggle to shape the Middle East. Wastnidge, E. & Mabon, S. (eds.). Manchester University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
  3 Downloads (Pure)

• Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia’s Global Influence on Islam. Edited by Peter Mandaville. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 342p. $99.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

  Darwich, M., 12 Dec 2022, In: Perspectives on Politics. 20, 4, p. 1515-1517 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
• 2021

  Alliance politics in the post-2011 Middle East: advancing theoretical and empirical perspectives

  Darwich, M., 23 Feb 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Mediterranean Politics. 26, 5, p. 635-656 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Middle East 100%
  • Alliance Politics 100%
  • Regional 100%
  • Literature 66%
  • Regional Development 33%
  174 Downloads (Pure)

• Foreign policy analysis and armed non-state actors in world politics: lessons from the Middle East

  Darwich, M., Oct 2021, In: Foreign Policy Analysis. 17, 4, orab030.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Middle East 100%
  • International Politics 100%
  • Non-state Actors 100%
  • Foreign Policy Analysis 100%
  • Policy Analysis 100%
  685 Downloads (Pure)

• How International Relations, an ‘American’ Discipline, Is Taught in the Arab World

  Salloukh, B., Darwich, M. & Valbjørn, M., 23 Mar 2021, Al-Fanar Media.

  Research output: Other contribution

• War and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa: by Ariel I. Ahram, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2020, 288 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781509532827

  Darwich, M., 19 Apr 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Mediterranean Politics.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
• 2020

  Escalation in failed military interventions: Saudi and Emirati Quagmires in Yemen

  Darwich, M., 28 Feb 2020, In: Global Policy. 11, 1, p. 103-112 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Dynamics 100%
  • Yemen 100%
  • Military Intervention 100%
  • Quagmire 100%
  • Emirati 100%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  202 Downloads (Pure)

• Middle Power Theory at the Regional Level: An Analytical Framework for the Middle East

  Darwich, M., 2020, Unfulfilled Aspirations: Middle Power Politics in the Middle East. Saouli, A. (ed.). Hurst

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  File
  268 Downloads (Pure)

• Saudi-Iranian Rivalry from the Gulf to the Horn of Africa: Changing Geographies and Infrastructures

  Darwich, M., 1 Mar 2020, POMEPS Studies: Sectarianism and International Relations. The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS), Vol. 38. p. 42-46

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The politics of teaching international relations in the Arab world: reading Walt in Beirut, Wendt in Doha, and Abul-Fadl in Cairo

  Darwich, M., Valbjørn, M., Salloukh, B. F., Hazbun, W., Samra, A. A., Saddiki, S., Saouli, A., Albloshi, H. H. & Makdisi, K., 17 Dec 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Studies Perspectives. 32 p., ekaa020.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Politics 100%
  • International Relations 100%
  • Arab World 100%
  • Doha 100%
  • Cairo 100%
  76 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Great and Regional Powers in the Middle East: The Evolution of Role Conceptions

  Darwich, M., 1 Mar 2019, POMEPS Studies: Shifting Global Politics and the Middle East. The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS), Vol. 34. p. 23-27

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• IR in the Middle East: foreign policy analysis in theoretical approaches

  Darwich, M. & Kaarbo, J., 20 Aug 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Relations.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Policy Analysis 100%
  • International Relation 100%
  • Foreign Policy 100%
  • Middle East 100%
  • International Relations 100%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  363 Downloads (Pure)

• Saudi Policies toward the Syria Crisis

  Darwich, M., Oct 2019, The War for Syria: Regional and International Dimensions of the Syrian Uprising. Saouli, A. & Hinnebusch, R. (eds.). Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  98 Downloads (Pure)

• Threats and Alliances in the Middle East: Saudi and Syrian Policies in a Turbulent Region

  Darwich, M., Sept 2019, Cambridge University Press. 218 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Leaders 100%
  • Case Study 100%
  • International Relations 100%
  • Syrian Arab Republic 100%
  • Ideational 100%
  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2018

  The Saudi intervention in Yemen: struggling for status

  Darwich, M., 1 Apr 2018, In: Insight Turkey. 20, 2, p. 125-142 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Yemen 100%
  • Politicians 25%
  • Middle East 25%
  • Saudi Arabia 25%
  • Material Needs 25%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  2535 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  Casting the other as an existential threat: the securitisation of sectarianism in the international relations of the Syria crisis

  Darwich, M., 12 Jan 2017, In: Global Discourse. 6, 4, p. 712-732 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • International Relations 100%
  • Securitization 100%
  • Sectarianism 100%
  • Existential Risk 100%
  • Syrian Crisis 100%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  867 Downloads (Pure)

• Creating the enemy, constructing the threat: the diffusion of repression against the Muslim brotherhood in the Middle East.

  Darwich, M., 3 Apr 2017, In: Democratization. 24, 7, p. 1289-1306 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Middle East 100%
  • Muslim Brotherhood 100%
  • Repression 100%
  • Domestic Sphere 66%
  • Military 33%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  210 Downloads (Pure)

• The international politics of authoritarian resilience and breakdown in the Middle East. Mediterranean politics

  Darwich, M., 23 Mar 2017, In: Mediterranean Politics. 23, 3, p. 418-426 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  214 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Ideational and material forces in threat perception: the divergent cases of Syria and Saudi Arabia during the Iran–Iraq war (1980–1988)

  Darwich, M., 15 May 2016, In: Journal of Global Security Studies. 1, 2, p. 142–156 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Saudi Arabia 100%
  • Threat Perception 100%
  • Syria 100%
  • Material Forces 100%
  • Syrian Arab Republic 100%
  386 Downloads (Pure)

• The ontological (in)security of similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi foreign policy

  Darwich, M., Jul 2016, In: Foreign Policy Analysis. 12, 3, p. 469–488 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Middle East 100%
  • Islamism 100%
  • Wahhabism 100%
  • Ontological Insecurity 100%
  • Saudi Foreign Policy 100%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  341 Downloads (Pure)

• To intervene or not to intervene? The Use of Military Force as Coercive Mechanism of Autocratic Diffusion

  Darwich, M., 24 Aug 2016, POMEPS Studies: Transnational Diffusion and Cooperation in the Middle East. The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS), Vol. 21. p. 43-48

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
• 2015

  Machtprestige als Motiv des saudischen Krieges im Jemen

  Darwich, M., 2015, In: GIGA Focus Nahost. 6

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review